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morning rather hopefully setting the stage to dig into one of the most significant single passages in all of Paul's writings Romans 5 verses 12 through 21 I'm going to read that passage throughout I'd like to ask Ariel
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if you pray for the ministry of the word this morning Romans chapter 5 beginning in verse 12. therefore just as through one man sin
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entered into the world and death through sin and so death spread to all men because all sinned
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for until the law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed when there is no law and nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses
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until Moses even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam who is a type of him who was to come but the free gift is not like the
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transgression for If by the transgression of the one the many died much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus
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Christ abound to the many and the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned for on the one hand the Judgment arose
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from one transgression resulting in condemnation but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting
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in justification in justification for If by the transgression of the one death Reign through the one much more those who receive the abundance of Grace
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and of the gift of righteousness righteousness will reign in life through the one Jesus Christ so then as through one transgression
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there resulted condemnation to all men even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men
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all men for as through the one man's Disobedience the many were made sinners even so Through The Obedience of the one the many will be made righteous
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and the law came in that the transgression might increase but where sin increased Grace abounded all the more that is as Sin reigned in death even so
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Grace might Reign through the righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ Our Lord let us pray
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ing that it is well with our soul and then to read this passage where we are [Music] why and how it can be well with our soul Lord I lift up your speaker today that
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as he preaches from this passage and we see your gift that reverses that curse upon us that those of us who have been brought
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into that gift that we would rejoice pray that any here who continue to firm the gift will be faced with the
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consequences of that person's sin death and recognize that there is nothing they can do can do to avoid or afford the punishment for
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their sins and that they would arrest themselves holy on the gift offer pray that your spirit would be with your people and your speaker today and be
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powerful to our edification and salvation in Christ's name and amen amen
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age and I found that when I was reading the commentators and preparing for this message and just reading in general about Romans about Romans 5 12-21 which as I said is a very
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significant significant passage in Paul I found myself being waxing nostalgic about a simpler time the Cold War
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fondly remembering when things were so nicely divided we knew where evil resided did we not it was over there in the Soviet Union everything was so cut and dry during the
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Cold War we were the good guys they were the bad guys even in our movies the bad guys always spoke with a Russian accent they still do
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what's up with that so you know seriously you think about that time and it really was a much simpler time
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simpler time then the age in which we live now post Cold War Cold War but was it really we were told in books in movies and by
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our leaders our leaders that communism was a Godless form of human society human society that we in the Democratic West were the
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the the paragons of virtue of moral right 1983 President Reagan delivered a speech to the National Association of
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evangelicals and the it's called the evil empire speech this was the first time that that phrase was used in reference to the Soviet
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Union in the speech he acknowledged the fact that that uh that there has been evil in our own past and present but the focus was clearly on our mortal
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enemies and our moral enemies the Soviets they were the minions of satans and we were the soldiers of the Lord
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oh to go back to such Simplicity of thought but we can't and in fact if we were to look honestly back to those years those of us who
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lived through them we would realize that while yes while yes communist totalitarianism was very evil that which we knew about it was repulsive to us
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we need only look around us to see a great deal of evil in our midst
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and it may be that the cold war is not only not a simpler time but was in fact a deception a deception drawing our attention away
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from an incipient and Progressive cancer of godlessness of godlessness that was within our own body politic existential that threat really was
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how we used to laugh about it how we had funny movies like the Russians are coming the Russians are coming or get smart or the James Bond novels
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and movies these were all about the existential fear in which we live that our way of life was going to be eradicated in nuclear destruction and
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but there was a deeper danger that was actually one that originates in the 18th century if if anywhere not not in the 20th seeds of Corruption of godlessness were
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sown actually in the very founding of our country and by the very Founders themselves a very interesting book that I I do
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recommend by James Turner who is a professor at a secular University I believe the University of Massachusetts but he wrote a book entitled without god
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without Creed the origins of unbelief in America interestingly he published the book in 1985. well the Cold War was still burning hot
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in this book he points out that some form of belief in a God or in the gods was integral to Human Society for the better part of six thousand years no matter what Society archaeologists or
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anthropologists discovered or what Society we might encounter in the world today there was a basic foundational belief in a god
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or in God's that the very structure of society was theistic and that there was no such thing as Atheism in fact Atheism in the Roman
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Empire this didn't mean that everybody was a Christian certainly not that everybody was a true Evangelical we might say born again Christian although that is redundant nonetheless
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the idea of a beneficent an imminent God was part of our social fabric was part of our our Collective psyche all the way up into at least the mid 19th century there was no such thing as
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an atheist an atheist Turner writes failing to believe somehow in some sort of deity was not merely rare it was a bizarre aberration
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you just didn't come out of the closet if you were an atheist what they would call a Godless man a man who denies the existence of God in our
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own Society we were religious now now we were definitely hierarchical in our religion you know at the bottom the the basic laborers and the and the poor dirt
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farmers they were the Baptists and then moving up you would get into the Tradesmen the Craftsmen and and they were often as they were rising up in society they were methodists
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and even higher up when you got into the the agricult agricultural aristocracy you encountered the Presbyterians but the brahmanas of the society were the episcopalians
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the episcopalians look at your list of presidents and their religion and you will see that what I say is true but in the 20th century egalitarianism
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it went so far that we actually had a Baptist president Baptist president won a real good one but he was a Baptist I don't think we've had one since
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but in the midst of this religious environment what we don't see and and what was hidden from our view by the conflicts that we entered into in the 20th century particularly the Cold War
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what we didn't see were the seeds of unbelief were being sown through the teachings of the Enlightenment of the 18th century philosophies that were born in England
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or in Europe but were imbibed by our founding fathers in the framer framers of our Constitution and of our social structure now don't get me wrong I think they did
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a great job politically they were a remarkable set of men very very intelligent I'm not talking about that not talking about the political structure I frankly think the Constitution is an amazing document and
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I would take our form of government over parliamentarianism any day but in the midst of that human development and these very very intelligent and well-read Men
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there was unbelief and there was a growing trust and exaltation of human reason over divine revelation
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and there was a growing doubt and discomfort and discomfort with what we read in Scripture leading even to a denial of some of the
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things that they termed miracles leading to one of our founding fathers creating his own Bible taking out all of those things that he considered to be unnatural Supernatural
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and superstitious and superstitious and coming up with a very much slimmed down version of the Bible Thomas Jefferson's Bible Jefferson's Bible these men were theists
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but very few were Christian and so the notion that our country was founded on Christian principles is frankly not true to history it was founded on theistic and deistic
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principles but of the founding fathers only a handful and perhaps not even that many could honestly be considered Evangelical in their faith and the one who was probably the most
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truly Christian was the most least likely or likable of all of them John Adams and the ones that we remember and honor
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with statues with statues were themselves deists or worse they adhere to natural law and to Enlightenment humanism
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Enlightenment humanism and they exalted the reason of man and creating a new world almost a new creation but not through the work of the Son of God on the cross and through the
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resurrection but rather through the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke and the philosophies of natural law and human rights came the
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thought that maybe there is no God was moved away further and further from the Affairs of men
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to the point whereby the mid-19th century he was so far away that he could be easily discounted as not even existing Turner goes on to right before about the
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middle of the 19th century atheism or agnosticism seemed almost palpably absurd shortly afterward unbelief emerged as an
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option fully available within the general Contours of Western culture we enter into the 20th century and we look at that as Americans as as when America came of age
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that when we finally Strode onto the world scene as the Colossus that we are bringing democracy in our wake freedom and liberty
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and liberty to the peoples in the downtrodden and oppressed peoples of the world but perhaps those Wars to end all wars and the wars to make the world safe for democracy battle going on
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a more serious battle with much more lasting repercussions lasting repercussions right here in our own Society
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view of the history of mankind from Adam to Christ with clear implications for all of the generations since generations since but we're not going to dig into it today
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one writer says Paul paints with broad brush Strokes a bird's eye picture of the history of redemption his canvas is human history but his scope is universal
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so why not get into it why not roll up our sleeves and as I read it perhaps you you you you heard that it is not the most grammatically
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precise sentence or paragraph ever written in human history and I'll give you a hint what he begins to say in verse 12 he doesn't pick up again until verse 18.
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it's one of the longest parenthetical statements ever written and following Paul as Peter tells us can be difficult be difficult so why not dig in and roll up our sleeves well it's because we have a
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problem a problem that is a result of what I've just said concerning the seeds of unbelief sown in our culture that have grown into a ripe Harvest of
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unbelief and that is a we have the name of a man called Adam called Adam That No One Believes In anymore
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the fruit of unbelief is that we have imbibed the religion of science and we begin to listen rather to the priesthood of scientists than those who bring to us the word of
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God and to the Holy Spirit evolution is a masterpiece of satanic deception it is a direct attack on God
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through his image Bearer man it cuts to the very Heart Of Who We Are and it's the subtlety of its deception
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the the Masterpiece of Satan's work is evident in that while Evolution exalts human Pride it utterly debases human
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it somehow allows us to be proud of of what we've become through Evolution never realizing that what we've become is nothing is nothing nothing but biological process
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we have no inherent dignity but we have pride in our lack of dignity now that is deception
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it is as I said it's a masterpiece if you look at it you you go through the Museum of Satan's Works throughout history and you come to the one that is right in the center it's called Evolution and you have to stand in awe
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at the subtle day and the effectiveness upon all of mankind in the western world and Eastern world called evolution
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wow you've taken away my dignity as the image of God and you've somehow made me feel good about it
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you've allowed me to maintain this thing called human rights while taking away any foundation for them you preached to me at doctrine of Tolerance but teach me a doctrine of eugenics
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it we who have had our eyes opened by the Holy Spirit how can we not see the incredible deception of this Godless doctrine that has now taken over our
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society my point is not to rail against the outside world the sad part is it's begun to take over the church and it started many many years ago in fact in fact some
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of the feline denominations this is what churches that fought against us against us there never was that originate from one Generations but around stage one
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Generations but around a stage that he met to the most anywhere my daughter and I about a daughter and I about us
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ing same thing and see we'll be looking at Lord willing early 20th century and in it he actually they fixed fact that if you if you regardless of our heritage human
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conditions nothing different about Heritage human conditions nothing different about but nothing different about my children Heritage and I found it
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quite in notice it always for grandparents and you're and I'm a child Heritage and I found it quite notice it always the grandparents and you're and I'm having for everyone loving for every one of us it is
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it is a tighter Society tighter Society pollutionists or Society solutionists well I've become a laughing
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pulpits are and two pulpits are and to imbibe biblical exposition to imbibe biblical exposition biblical exposition but even among those who stick
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but even among those who stitchly that really has not exist very much that really has not exist very modern in the sciental communical community of Germans
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that we love Academia Moses wrote all of the neighbor talks about neighbor talks about rabbi about rabbi human being
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human being that's in his life of some very glare the two men being if you stop there you would make complete sense of placing the con oh okay Adam and Crow okay Adam and
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Christ you love but he certainly his commentator he wrote Adam being a first historical is in but what he's basically saying Adam has a problems problems has fall and
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everything in this concrete for century we need we know the world is wicked and the world the world he's probably on Mark now he was real he the entire human to our Christianity the
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entire human to our Christian faith and his resurrection his resurrection that can be parallel can be paralleled to anybody of Zeus you'll understand
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that this that this and actually eventually then delves for others for then tells for others For What and I know that you will end by doubt
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if we take away from willing next week otherwise Paul has no argument one man happened in one man Jesus fundamentally important but our Theology and anthropology biologically physios immoral to race but also in its origin
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into not because of some genetic we don't we don't have psychologically but also in its origin into not because of some genetic we don't we don't have psychologically the basic principles that Paul's laying a problem of death do
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coming in to the only recommended is still and I I would those defending the Citadel they're what the liberal not Christianity those defending the Citadel they're what the liberal not Christianity that describes my using words that are not or entirely into the
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lies and Ambush there into the lies and Ambush there but if we maintain
